From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2004-06-12T14:52:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Appropriate use of camelCase

On Saturday, 12 June 2004 at 14:28:40 +0900, Ryan Paul wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 15:52:47 +0000, Sean Russell wrote:
> 
> > Patrick Bennett wrote:
> > 
> I dont know why everyone makes such a big deal about tabs vs spaces. If
> your editor isnt a piece of crap, switching between tabs and spaces, and
> changing the number of spaces, should be no problem as long as the file is
> written consistently. One of my colleagues uses hard-tabs exclusively, and
> I use two space soft tabs. Every time he sends me a file, I run a command
> in vim, and *POOF* - it uses two space soft tabs. I send him the file
> back, and he uses a perl script he wrote to convert it back.

Changing tab<->spaces in a file can cause problems with your CVS environment.
You could tell CVS to ignore the white space, but then you 
can't check the white space that is really important.

I shudder at the thought. This is bordering on, ...well when
I get a file from my friend, I reformat it to look like I
want it to look like, changing indentation style, variable
and method names.... Where does it stop?

-- 
Jim Freeze
ASHes to ASHes, DOS to DOS.